Trump: 'I never worked for Russia'

[UpInArms]

Source: CNN

President Donald Trump said definitively on Monday he never worked for Russia after offering a non-denial when questioned over the weekend about an FBI investigation into whether he was working with Moscow.

"I never worked for Russia, and you know that answer better than anybody," Trump said on the South Lawn.

"It's a whole big fat hoax. It's just a hoax," Trump said of the FBI's Russia investigation.

...snip...

"The people doing that investigation were people that have been caught that are known scoundrels," he said. "I guess you could say they're dirty cops."

He used familiar attack lines against Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe and James Comey, and said the FBI had experienced a turnaround after those officials' departures.



Read more: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/14/politics/donald-trump-russia-fbi/index.html

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Lying liar ...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. That settles it then, right?

Nixon wasn't a crook, either.

[forgotmylogin]

31. He didn't work for them. He was an independent contractor.

HEYOOOOO

I'm here all week, tip your waiters!

[FiveGoodMen]

2. "I never had conspiratorial relations with that man, Vladimir Putin"

[SayItLoud]

3. Ah, he's victim of a conspiracy theory.....that will turn out to be R E A L !

And, "I never worked for Russia" is kinda like a BJ being the same as " I've never had sex with that woman".

[dawg day]

29. "And Russia never worked for me! Right?"

[benld74]

4. NEVER worked for America either

[Maeve]

6. Yep!!!

[forgotmylogin]

32. HEYOOOOOO!

[Solly Mack]

5. But you do work for Putin.

[The Liberal Lion]

7. LIAR!

[Dave Starsky]

8. Trump would never work FOR anyone.

In his pea brain, he and Putin are partners. He is working WITH him.

So as far as he's concerned, he's telling the truth.

[RobinA]

17. Partners

Yep. Trump works for no one but Trump. He has no reason to knowingly work "for" Russia, which he doesn't care about any more or less than he cares about the US. He might work with Putin to put together some kind of self-serving plan. Although, frankly, if Putin is the slick operator I've read he is, I doubt if he'd put much faith in Trump carrying out part of any plan. More, he's using Trump's unwittingness to his own ends. Isn't there some kind of martial art where you use the other person's weight against them? Putin is using Trump's lack of nuance and real world experience against him for whatever purpose.

[Lock him up.]

25. The kind of self-serving plan has a name: Rosnet.

Follow the money. Half a Trillion like.

[LuckyLib]

34. This needs to be an OP. Excellent points.

[dalton99a]

9. Keep talking, traitor

[KPN]

10. Every time this f***wad speaks, he lowers the respect and integrity of the office of POTUS

and our nation to greater depths.

[olddad56]

36. POTUS? Don't you mean Russian Agent in Chief OTUS (RACOTUS).

[ffr]

11. Yes, we know that's true, you haven't "worked" for them, you WORK for them, current tense.

You piece if shit, traitor!

[angrychair]

12. Really, it true

How can you call doing what you love “work”.

[Botany]

13. The strain in Trump's voice is the worst I have ever heard.

He is in full breakdown mode.

[matt819]

14. Oh, okay, never mind then. . .

Sheesh. Does he really think that anyone believes anything he says?

First, he lies.

Second, in his mind he works for no one. He works for and cares only for himself. So in his mind, and in his mind only, his statement is true.

In what we call the reality-based universe, he is lying.

And if there's any justice or karma, he will come up against that reality in many, many courtrooms, along with all of his family members.

[flibbitygiblets]

15. No he didn't "work" for Russia. He was an AGENT for Russia, there's a difference

I can't wait to hear the American interpreter's version of what was discussed in the meeting with Putin.

[Archae]

16. Seeing that...

I had a "I'm not a crook" flashback.

[robbob]

18. When he says:

“Big fat hoax”, only one image comes to MY mind...

[SunSeeker]

19. Lying liar gotta lie. nt

[dalton99a]

20. Kremlin HR manager confirms: "We have no records of Donald J. Trump's employment."

"We are unable to locate his paycheck stubs"

[BigmanPigman]

21. He is correct. He never workED for Russia since he IS workING for them still.

This is how his brilliant legal mind works.

[dalton99a]

22. +1. Genius move

[cstanleytech]

23. Translation: I use intermediaries to do it for me.

[SWBTATTReg]

24. Sure. Look at all of the 'I don't work w/ Russia' contacts already ID'ed as contacts w/ the ...

Russians. Too many to be mere chance. Way too many. Explain that, eh?

Can't because there are numerous cases with actual testimony already entered into evidence on others who conspired along w/ you too and did get caught. A lot of them got caught LYING just like you are doing now.

[LisaM]

26. Typical parsing of words.

I saw a good explanation the other day of what an asset is versus an agent. Trump is most definitely an asset. I think that he deliberately stated it the way he did because technically (unusual as it may seem), it's the truth.

He could not in all good conscience - if he had a conscience - state that he wasn't a Russian asset.

[dlk]

27. No, Trump Works Directly for Vladimir Putin

Semantics...

[Lock him up.]

28. Still nobody on the South Lawn asked for his Tax Returns?

What's the FBI doing (hurry up, Elliot Ness...).

[Hassler]

30. "Believe me!"

[TexasBushwhacker]

33. "I just sold them condos at inflated prices for cash" n/t

[olddad56]

35. I'm wondering about Melania.

Is she the wife of a Russian Agent.... or is she a a russian agent, just posing as the wife of the russian agent-in -chief?

[UpInArms]

37. Am thinking she's his watcher

Or keeper

[dumpTrump Dumptruck]

38. He's never WORKED, period

But selling us out to Putin can be done verbally.

[Homer Wells]

39. I am not a crook

Trumps quote will live on like Nixon's.

[True_Blue]

40. Considering Trump isn't capable of ever telling the truth

He's definitely a Russian agent.